New year, new contest

Every year the Minnesota lottery has a New Year’s Day raffle. They sell 700,000 tickets. There are several prizes, including two $1 million prizes.

As usual, I have a ticket for the 2020 raffle. What does this have to do with our contest?

Your goal is to guess the total of the 12 digits from the $1 million winning ticket numbers in the 2020 contest. The winner receives a prize package containing at least three items on nominal value.

An example: The winning numbers for the 2019 raffle were 091593 and 442917. Add up the 12 digits for those winning tickets and you get a total of 54. https://www.mnlottery.com/games/raffle/raffle-2019

Fun facts: The lowest total you could have is 2, and that could happen several ways. If the winning tickets are 000001 and 000100, the total is 2.

The highest total you could have is 101, and that could happen multiple ways, as well. If the winning tickets are 699999 and 699998, you get 101. It also happens if the winning tickets are 699999 and 698999.

To enter: Send your guess via private message to MikeVegas by Tuesday evening. At some point Tuesday night the contest will officially close. So don’t delay, enter today.

As usual, game show rules apply. The closest to the actual total, without going over, wins the prize package. If all guesses exceed the winning total, the guess closest to the total will be the winner. A tie-breaker will be held if necessary.

AND THE ENTRIES ARE:

Spartan75 43
DiceDominatorOKC 44
Azjim1 46
Alyssajandm 49
QuickSparrow14 56
GregRulz 58
Pinksushi66 63
Sheila618 63
Xray1989 64
71fraz 71
Jack664 73
Scracer 78